zombie processes

[Julian Field]

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And on my DOS 6.2 machine I find the multi-tasking a little slow too :-)

You have an error in your MailScanner.conf, check your maillog.
What version of MailScanner are you running? woody shipped with 3.27.

On 10 Jan 2006, at 03:48, Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On a Debian woody box with exim3, I get zombie process after
> starting MailScanner:
>
> # ps axw|grep -i mailsc
> 15355 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: starting children
> 15356 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 15360 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
> 15366 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: waiting for messages
>
> After some time:
>
> # ps axw|grep -i mailsc
> 15355 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for  
> children, sleeping
> 15356 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 15360 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
> 15366 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: waiting for messages
>
> After message is received:
>
> # ps axw|grep -i mailsc
> 15355 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for  
> children, sleeping
> 15356 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 15360 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
> 15366 ?        S      0:00 MailScanner: waiting for messages
> 15396 ?        Z      0:00 [MailScanner <defunct>]
>
> Sometimes some zombies disappear and new ones appear, but usually
> there are 2 of them. They don't seem to be doing any harm and they
> disappear after stopping mailscanner, but still something is wrong.
> Any ideas? Nothing wrong in logs.
>
> Regards,
> Nerijus
>
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